Doted Lines – Street Marking

[Sam Moulton]

i just did a dashed line by applying the venetian blind transition to a long thin solid maybe that would work unless your lines are curved

[Noe Marti]

my lines are curved 🙁

would be nice if adobe could pimp the vegas filter ……

[Sam Moulton]

you might try adding one of the warp filters

[Noe Marti]

that wont work, I need something like the “Vegas” effects (animatable) but with rectangles. It is a closed curvy border.

[Spritemaster]

How about multiple vegas or stroke effects? Try to make a single rectangular blob along the mask at a certain offset, then duplicate the effect and use expressions to space the offsets so as to get a dashed line. I’m not in front of AE now and I can’t remember if you can get an index for the effect number within a layer, but if not just duplicate the layer itseld and use a single stroke effect on each layer; then you can use the “index” variable in an expression as a multiplier for the offset position.

Does this do what you’re after, or am I misinterpreting your question?

AA

[Sam Moulton]

if they don’t move you could just draw the lines in Illustrator.

[Dflamholc]

yeah, easiest way ive done dotted lines that write themselves out was to draw them in illustrator and import to ae and apply the write-on effect, using the path from illustrator as a motion path. don’t know if that would work for you .. :)/d

[Sam Moulton]

Hey – this is the first time I figured out the answer to one of the questions.

I added matte choker to vegas and then alpha levels. In vegas i set the hardness to 1, the start middle and end opacity to 1, and the color to white and blend mode to transparant

I then added matte choker and ran up geometric softnes to 4 and choked the lines until i got square ends. The lines were not a solid color so I added alpha levels and cranked the input white clear down to 0 which got rid of the gray. Now the layer can be used as a luminance track matte for a yellow layer.

square end stripes…. wow! I’m so proud of myself.

[Editing-jos]

wasnt it possible to just use TEXT on a Path? You can animate that!

You can use the minus for the line. In the ascii code are still more elements to use. Or special fonts with signs.

[Noe Marti]

Thank your for all Ideas. The “Minus” is the solution. That’s it ! Thank you for this great Idea,

Text on Path and then use the minus – it’s that simple.